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Berthold Langguth1, Jan Bulla1,2, Beate Fischer3
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Bezirksklinikum, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 84, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
Introduction:
This study aimed to explore whether body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure (RR syst), diastolic blood pressure (RR diast) or heart rate (HR) are associated with tinnitus status and/or severity.
Methods:
To that end, we evaluated the influence of tinnitus status and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) score on BMI, RR syst, RR diast and HR by comparing data from a large sample of patients presenting to a specialized tertiary referral clinic (N = 1066) with data from a population-based control group (N = 9885) by means of linear models.
Results:
Tinnitus patients had a significantly lower BMI and higher RR syst, RR diast and HR than non-tinnitus patients; however, the contribution of the case-control status to R2 was very small (0.1%, 0.7%, 1.4% and 0.4%, respectively). BMI had little predictive power for the THI score (higher BMI scores were related to higher THI scores; R2 = 0.5%) and neither RR syst, RR diast, nor HR showed a statistically significant association with THI.
Discussion:
Our findings suggest that HR, RR and BMI are at most marginally associated with tinnitus status and severity.
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